markd2

<p>I've seen lots of images from a 50D that are stunning, so it may be a bad camera, or more likely something going wrong with settings / processing.</p>

<p>tuck the cable into the strap, or wedge it between the camera and tripod. There's probably all sorts of nooks you can stick the thing. If you're shooting film for long periods of time, make sure you know about "reciprocity failure"</p>

<p><em>We're talking about PS. </em><br>

OP was talking Lightroom too.<br>

<em>Huh?</em><br>

You don't have to go out and get a special 64-bit version of the OS to run 64-bit apps.<br>

<em><br /></em></p>

<p><em>But it's a 32-bit app on Mac and wont even use 4 gigs of ram, let alone 16.</em><br>

Lightroom is a 64-bit app and will happily consume memory. If you have 16 gigs of RAM, four 32-bit apps can all be resident at the same time. (There's no 32-bit/64-bit OS distinction like in Windows)<br>

OBTW, it's not MAC, it's Mac (it's not an acronym), but it does make it easy to see who is coming over from WINDOWS.</p>

 

<p>I find the pressure-controlled brush size to be indispensable when using the healing brushes.</p>

<p>LightRoom is closer to Aperture than Photoshop is. Both Aperture and Lightroom are good programs which have free trials. There's been pro/con discussions before on photo.net if you want to check the archives.</p>

<p>Check your exposure compensation (the +/- button).</p>

<p>I've got an Epson PictureMate that I keep on the desk for one-off prints. I like it. Works via USB, or you can stick in the camera's memory card.</p>

<p>Use a blimp or a another device whose name I forget, it's like a snuggie but for the camera.</p>

<p>What I have used is long lenses from as far back stage as I can get. I used a D300S which has a "quiet" mode, which is somewhat quieter than the usual shutter sound.</p>

<p>If you're familiar with the music, you can plan to catch more shots when the brass are going nuts.<br>

Some shots from my last shoot. http://picasaweb.google.com/borkwareLLC/PP09?authkey=Gv1sRgCLrrruaM0fquaA#5398179775427087074</p>

<p>Since you'll be out in the snow, be prepared for the camera screen to be hard to read when chimping / looking at the histogram. I've got a Hoodman Loupe which makes reading the screen much easier in bright conditions. If you're on a budget you can probably rig up something homemade that's similar.</p>

<p>Feature-wise, they're very similar, and I've used Aperture and Lightroom (2) a lot. I eventually moved to Lightroom because I was bitten by a number of import bugs in Aperture, and I also had problems if I saved my Photoshop file in an odd format (LAB in my case, and I did maximal compatibility turned on), Aperture would permanently show the "no preview available" thumbnail. Kind of makes it hard to know what's what.</p>

<p>Both have good organizational abilities, with the edge to Aperture since Lightroom doesn't import directly into collections, but you can work around that by having a directory hierarchy in the file system. I also liked Aperture's vaults for doing backups.</p>

<p>Lightroom has a much healthier ecosystem - you can find lots and lots of books, websites, and video tutorials about it. Plus its integration with Photoshop is very good. Adobe tends to be a bit more open - more updates and fixes, plus there's the new public beta of LR 3 lets you see what's coming. Apple is typically tight-lipped about what they're adding and fixing.</p>

<p>Since you've got the trials, I'd "shoot a real job" and try the workflows end to end in each of them: Take a couple hundred shots, import into a collection or something, cull and rate them, develop your favorites, and then publish them to the web or on paper. See which program feels better.</p>

 

<p>Try the free trials of Lightroom and Aperture. They're like iphoto, but on steroids. If you come across stuff that those cannot do, then you can edit the odd photo in Photoshop or elements.</p>

<p>Also, if you're using the built-in flash as a commander for the SB800s, you'll need a new commander unit since the D3 family doesn't have a flash. </p>

<p>The creep can get annoying if you have it on a tripod angled towards the ground. I probably should carry some rubber bands with me.</p>

<p><em>You will ONLY hear from disgruntled users</em><br>

I am a gruntled user who has had fabulous experiences with Nikon and Canon equipment.</p>

 

<p>are you double-tapping? That closes the selection.</p>

<p>Hi,</p>

<p>Fairly frequently I see corrupted markup - chunks of uninterpreted html. Reloading the page corrects it. Attaching a screen shot. I see this in Safari / Mac, OS 10.5.9 and 10.6.1.</p>

<p> </p>

<p><em>If you wish your image to show up as an image and not a link, the maximum file size is 100 KBytes (full-size images from digital cameras won't work).</em></p>

<p>That's only for photos uploaded via photo.net's software. Many of the photos posted come from off-site, and so can be of any size. I'm sure egregious abuses get moderated.</p>

<p>Kelby Training has a Capture NX2 class. Jason Odell has a Capture NX2 ebook at http://www.luminescentphoto.com/nx2guide.html . I read his silver efx ebook, and it was pretty good.</p>

<p> You're blasting it with light from one direction and getting very hard-edged shadows, making it look almost like an interrogation chamber. Use the SB800's to provide some fill from the side to even things out. That may be too big of a place to illuminate with just one studio strobe and two speedlites, so you'll probably want to shoot a smaller tableaux than the entire showroom.</p>

<p>+1 on crucial.com. They have an app which will tell you exactly what kind of RAM to get for your machine. Have never had a problem with what I've gotten from them.</p>

<p>I got a good chuckle out of it.</p>

<p>I like using the Kelby books for getting over the "OMGWTF do I do in this program?". They hand-hold you through some common scenarios. After I got a grounding, then things like the Evening book (and other books which have PS-related chapters) made more sense.</p>

<p>The face is also very overexposed. Double-check your meter settings.</p>

<p>I was an Aperture user for quite a while, but am using Lightroom now. The big thing is that Apple doesn't release updates/fixes for Aperture very often, while Adobe does. I've got one metadata-destroying Aperture bug that's been open for a year and a half now.</p>